Continuing with my 12 moments of anime for 2009 (in order of significance to me personally), here’s #10:
Inuyasha is the only long-running series for which I’ve seen all the anime episodes and read all 558 chapters of the manga. The original 167-episode anime finishing airing in Japan in 2004 and finishing airing on Adult Swim in 2006. Since then, fans have been impatient and frustrated about how the anime ended without any conclusion while the manga continued on. In October 2006, I wrote a post about why Inuyasha should have a new TV anime and, throughout the past three years, it’s received over 130 comments by passionate fans begging for more episodes. Finally, in October 2009, five years after the first anime ended in Japan, Sunrise decided to make 26 more Inuyasha episodes to cover the rest of the manga chapters.
Since the manga ended over a year ago, Inuyasha fandom has been slowly dying, but the new Final Act (Kanketsu-hen) anime series is reviving it. I agree with many fans that the new anime is rushing through the last bunch of chapters too quickly, but at least we finally have new Inuyasha after all these years. It will probably never be the success it once was in the U.S., but since I was an Inuyasha fanatic for many years, it will always be special to me =)
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Other blogs participating in this year’s 12 moments of anime project: otou-san, schneider, doctordazza, Gargron, Scamp, zaon47, kevo, rabbitpoets, drmchsr0, Pontifus, ghostlightning, 53RG10, Vii, Seinime, _ETERNAL, FuyuMaiden, Eater-of-All, Shinmaru, calaggie, canon, Nazarielle, Cuchlann, Jinx
